Time to fess up! be honest.

[+Robespierre]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

[+Knight2000]

Uh. Nope. What would you do with it after you took it?

[vtmtnman]

 

I feel sorry for the cacher that has to answer this one truthfully.Talk about de duh de!

[+Knight2000]

[+cache_test_dummies]

Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

When I found my first Virtual, I took the statue home. Some Civil War guy. Thing weighed about eighteen hundred pounds. Sat in my yard for a month before somebody told me you weren't supposed to take them home.

[+LaTuFu]

I slipped on some leaves covering a slick rock near the cache while I was signing the log. Left a chunk of my elbow and my pride on the rock.

 

I'm not even close, am I?

[+ke6n]

Gosh, no. I read the geocache website fairly thoroughly.

 

...in addition, I read the cache pages.

[vtmtnman]

Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

When I found my first Virtual, I took the statue home. Some Civil War guy. Thing weighed about eighteen hundred pounds. Sat in my yard for a month before somebody told me you weren't supposed to take them home.

 

That was you?????

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Uh. Nope. What would you do with it after you took it?

You mean we're not supposed to take the caches home and add them to our collection in the basement? Now you tell me? Now, after we have collected over 1,700 caches? Tell me you are joking!

[vtmtnman]

Uh. Nope. What would you do with it after you took it?

You mean we're not supposed to take the caches home and add them to our collection in the basement? Now you tell me? Now, after we have collected over 1,700 caches? Tell me you are joking!

The NWO shape shifters made you do it no doubt!

[+rdaines]

Ah, No. Never stole a cache. I may have taken swag without leaving any but make up for it elsewhere.

[+Semper Questio]

Never took one for that reason, but I did take one off a guy's property when he caught me after I found it and I was signing the log. He didn't want it there and had a shotgun and an unpleasant disposition that convinced me to haul it out.

[+outdoorsaddix]

Awww man, and I went through all that trouble of cataloging my collection by size and by type and now you tell me thats not how im supposed to play??????

 

 

 

(note to everyone i hope this is obviously sarcastic I don't want a bunch of angry emails)

Edited June 4, 2007 by photonut13

[+Lacomo]

Just look at my stats....found 54....hid 1.

 

I've got the other 53 down in the basement. Maybe I'll get around to hiding them back sometime.

[+kyk96]

nope, never done that. wished i could once when i found the PERFECT hide location but it was too close to another cache.

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Found a log in the book once by someone apologizing for taking the cache because she didn't realize how the game was played. We've never done this ourselves, but I must admit I thought at first that's how it was done. I learned differently, before actually finding a cache.

[+Renegade Knight]

I have taken a bulldozed cache and put it by a nother cache that the same owner had then let them know their container had been compromised.

 

I have walked on a trail to another cache, found one that was just tossed on the hillsde and taken that one only to find it had been MIA for a year when I got it back to it's owner.

 

I have taken several caches that were obviously not the cache I thought I had found but where caches swapped in when someone else stole the original cache. Much musical caches ensured.

 

I've gone to visit my own cache as a check up only to find 3 other caches there (which I took) and then had to diable my own cache as I replaced mine and contacted the owners of the other caches.

 

As for just taking a cache because I didn't know any better. Nope.

[+alaska-1]

Had to take a container home once b/c a deputy rolled up in the parking lot before I could replace it. I brought it back the next day, though

 

but.... that's not what you were asking

[+TrailGators]

I have never done that! But I have been the victim of it! I remember finding a note where a cache used to be telling me that the guy took it because he was in a hurry and didn't have time to log it and put it back. Gee thanks dude!

[+Team GeoBlast]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

[vtmtnman]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

[+Team GeoBlast]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

 

The very basic rudimentary premise of Geocaching is that there are caches that are put there for people to find with a GPS. I honestly can't understand how someone would think that caches are to be taken or even ask the question for that matter.

 

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

[Elaur]

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

 

I can't see where asking a question about someone misunderstanding the rules of caching has anything to do with him being an "ex man of the cloth." Or why this thought is so evil it shouldn't even enter his mind. That seems rather to be attacking HIM instead of his post.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

I agree with the sentiment expressed about Robespierre's humor; I knew from the start that he was asking a bit toungue in cheek, and besides, the reality is that some cache finders REALLY DO take caches! And, regarding Team Geoblast's near attack on the OP: why should his being an ex-pastor (or even a current pastor, for that matter) need to act as a creativity-deadening agent to keep him from coming up with amusing and creative thoughts?

[vtmtnman]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

 

The very basic rudimentary premise of Geocaching is that there are caches that are put there for people to find with a GPS. I honestly can't understand how someone would think that caches are to be taken or even ask the question for that matter.

 

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

Neither could I,but see post #16.

[+wimseyguy]

Taken a cache, nope never.

Held onto one for an hour or three, becuase replacing it was impossible, yup a few times. The most memorable was a Las Vegas strip micro at a popular photo op spot in front of one of the casinos. I managed to make the grab in between some medieval models, but then an entire busload of tourists showed up, so I pocketed it and brought it back after lunch.

[+chuckwagon101]

! And, regarding Team Geoblast's near attack on the OP: why should his being an ex-pastor (or even a current pastor, for that matter) need to act as a creativity-deadening agent to keep him from coming up with amusing and creative thoughts?

 

 

Maybe "men of the cloth" and "ex men of the cloth" are to be held to a higher standard than Lower Sobbovian cachers that only want a "big pile of sticks in the woods" and a McToy now and then!

[+Robespierre]

Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

When I found my first Virtual, I took the statue home. Some Civil War guy. Thing weighed about eighteen hundred pounds. Sat in my yard for a month before somebody told me you weren't supposed to take them home.

 

That was you?????

"That was you?" is what I was gonna say.

[vtmtnman]

Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

When I found my first Virtual, I took the statue home. Some Civil War guy. Thing weighed about eighteen hundred pounds. Sat in my yard for a month before somebody told me you weren't supposed to take them home.

 

That was you?????

"That was you?" is what I was gonna say.

[+wimseyguy]

Well now, that wasn't very amusing or creative.

[+Robespierre]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

 

The very basic rudimentary premise of Geocaching is that there are caches that are put there for people to find with a GPS. I honestly can't understand how someone would think that caches are to be taken or even ask the question for that matter.

 

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

Neither could I,but see post #16.

Thanks to those who came to my defense. The truth is, my background has nothing to do with it, and in this case, this cache, if I read the situation right, there's no reason for it to be missing. It just made me wonder...... and I do know for a fact that newbies sometimes think you take the cache - rare as that may be. Most of the time that is explained sufficiently before they actually do it, I'm sure.

And this seemed like such an odd comment:

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

 

such an odd comment that I thought you were a young child who is.........

[+Lotho]

Before we had heard of caching we came across one and took it home to investigate, but put it back the next day. What can i say, im hooked now! And my caching freind bungo is too =D

Edited June 4, 2007 by Lotho

[+Kabuthunk]

Can't says I've ever taken a cache (aside from walking to my car with it to avoid suspicion, and then putting it back a few minutes later).

 

When I first started, I was EXTRA cautious actually. When I first came across a TB, I had no clue what it was, so I left it there

[+Team GeoBlast]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

 

The very basic rudimentary premise of Geocaching is that there are caches that are put there for people to find with a GPS. I honestly can't understand how someone would think that caches are to be taken or even ask the question for that matter.

 

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

Neither could I,but see post #16.

Thanks to those who came to my defense. The truth is, my background has nothing to do with it, and in this case, this cache, if I read the situation right, there's no reason for it to be missing. It just made me wonder...... and I do know for a fact that newbies sometimes think you take the cache - rare as that may be. Most of the time that is explained sufficiently before they actually do it, I'm sure.

And this seemed like such an odd comment:

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

 

such an odd comment that I thought you were a young child who is.........

 

You know what, I didn't understand your post at all. Please accept my apologies.

[+ke6n]

You know what, I didn't understand your post at all. Please accept my apologies.

What is THIS? This is the forums, home of angst and discontent! People don't just go around using manners and appologizing like they would if they were speaking face to face!!

[vtmtnman]

You know what, I didn't understand your post at all. Please accept my apologies.

What is THIS? This is the forums, home of angst and discontent! People don't just go around using manners and appologizing like they would if they were speaking face to face!!

Sadly,he's right.I respect TGB for that alot.

[+Robespierre]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

Why doesn't it add up?Perhaphs you're reading too deep into the question?Based on my experience with Rob he is a jokester and has a different sense of humor.I've taken him the wrong way a couple times.How come no one says this doesn't add up when the whipping boy thread gets locked because of a sock or the ban micro thread gets started to just create a fire?

 

The very basic rudimentary premise of Geocaching is that there are caches that are put there for people to find with a GPS. I honestly can't understand how someone would think that caches are to be taken or even ask the question for that matter.

 

I don't know, it just seems that an ex man of the cloth would not only not ask this question but it's strange to me that this thought would even enter his mind. And yes, I never rule the possibility out of me missing something completely.

Neither could I,but see post #16.

Thanks to those who came to my defense. The truth is, my background has nothing to do with it, and in this case, this cache, if I read the situation right, there's no reason for it to be missing. It just made me wonder...... and I do know for a fact that newbies sometimes think you take the cache - rare as that may be. Most of the time that is explained sufficiently before they actually do it, I'm sure.

And this seemed like such an odd comment:

 

This was such an odd question that it lead me to look at your profile to see if you were a young child who is incapable of basic understanding or something. You were an ex-pastor? I am sorry but there's something that is not adding up.

 

such an odd comment that I thought you were a young child who is.........

 

You know what, I didn't understand your post at all. Please accept my apologies.

Happily done and done. thanks

[+Team LaLonde]

Interestingly enough it never entered my mind to take a find home when we first started geocaching. It just made sense that if other people signed the logbook and left it there then we should follow suit. It's not like you visit a bed and breakfast and take the guest book home.

[+wimseyguy]

The guest book , heavens no. But the sherry carafe, towels, bathrobes, a few books, well that's just different.

[+Stunod]

I think the newbies who mistakenly take the cache are few and far between.

 

It's the expierenced cachers who replace someone else's cache they think is missing (and they think they know where it should go) that is more of a problem.

 

Right, Robes?

[+Recdiver]

Does it count if I swap out ammo cans for Gladware containers?

I just love ammo cans and my collection is growing weekly.

[+Team GeoBlast]

You know what, I didn't understand your post at all. Please accept my apologies.

What is THIS? This is the forums, home of angst and discontent! People don't just go around using manners and apologizing like they would if they were speaking face to face!!

 

I wish they had one of these smilies with egg on it's face because I would have used it.

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[+GClouse]

Once while retrieving a cache, I stirred up a swarm of yellowjackets that had built a nest right next to the cache. I ended up having to take the cache with me because the little critters coming after me when I tried to put it back. One of em stung me next to my left eye.

 

I contacted the owner and made arangements to return it.

[+Sioneva]

I never take caches home. But I love those little toys with the metal tags attached to them. I collect the tags and let the baby have the toys!

 

... That's okay, right?

[+BlueDeuce]

I did a few caches this afternoon in the mugginess, and solo, and had a good time, but I had a dnf, and I'm almost positive that I know the spot, but it's an empty spot (cemetary micro).... Did you ever, when you were a Newbie, take the cache, thinking that was the way to play.......??

 

Nope, I wasn't a newbie nor did I think it was the way to play but when the property owner, no not land owner, the property owner said "You are trespassing and you need to leave now", I didn't explain that I needed to replace the cache first.

[+Dew Crew]

Our second cache find had been missing for months. We thought we'd take a look on the way back from our first find, because we thought we knew where it was, and guess what? It was back. Same container, same logbook. Strange... The owner moved it to the other side of a valley, closer to our first hide, shortly after.

[+Robespierre]

I think the newbies who mistakenly take the cache are few and far between.

 

It's the expierenced cachers who replace someone else's cache they think is missing (and they think they know where it should go) that is more of a problem.

 

Right, Robes?

You have no idea how many times I've had a cacher re-hide my cache in a different place which they like better..... or somethin'. I've lost the ammo box to someone, but the bad is left. I've been just plain muggled. I really appreciated one of Lep's posts the other day about a very remote cache - "the last one which would be muggled" - which was. I've had a wood box de-hinged for entry. I've moved a cache because of damage done. I've removed one because of unwanted night activity.

 

But mostly, I have to say, cachers have been helpful and respectful.

You know, once I even left a new log in a new film canister, myself, because I was convinced that I had looked everywhere...... and hadn't.

[+Robespierre]

I never take caches home. But I love those little toys with the metal tags attached to them. I collect the tags and let the baby have the toys!

 

... That's okay, right?

[+gof1]

Strangely enough this is the first question most people ask when I try to explain what geocaching is. "So, you go out in the woods and find a hidden box full of junk. Then what, do you keep it?" With the number of times I've been asked that I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Strangely enough this is the first question most people ask when I try to explain what geocaching is. "So, you go out in the woods and find a hidden box full of junk. Then what, do you keep it?" With the number of times I've been asked that I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.

Well, I almost never try to tell anyone about geocaching unless they ask, but... yes, same experienced here! And, when I explain that the whole goal -- aside from the journey and the challenge of reaching it and finding it -- is only to find the thing and sign the logbook and then to log it online, most of them kinda look at me like I must be insane to bother with such an odd pastime!